Carnosaur Crimes Book Summary and Study Guide

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Poisoned Pen, Apr 2005, 24.95, 330 pp.
ISBN: 1590581504

The stealing of fossils including dinosaur tracks is a lucrative business so there are as many poachers as paleontologists. Something went wrong for one poacher when an explosion killed him near the Big Toe Museum in Montana. Panicked curator Dr. Cameron Dieselmore informs paleoartist Ansel Phoenix that her allosaurus replica killed someone as part of the victim resides as a burned husk dangling from the teeth of her model.
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Ansel arrives at the crime scene only to find law enforcement arguing jurisdiction between the Big Toe police, LaCrosse County sheriff, the state, the FBI and the Bureau of Land and mines. Not long afterward, FBI Agent Outerbridge asks Ansel for help in capturing poachers who devastated a major find because as a half-Indian she might provide access that he cannot achieve. Reluctantly she agrees because she fears the BLM will shut the Big Toe Museum that is on federal land and move the find to a California think tank.

Harriet Klausner

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Composition of Bookdescript. of violence and chases 10%Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 40%Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 40%How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) 10%Tone of story - very humorous
How difficult to spot villain? - Very difficult--no foreshadowing/cluesTime/era of story: - 2000+ (Present)
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot? - 60%Kind of investigator - no powwow with Indian killersKid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Any non-mystery subplot? - squabbling with fellow investigator(s)/police bossCrime Thriller - YesMurder Mystery (killer unknown) - Yes